L'Histoire se Répète
Keny Arkana
History Repeats Itself
We said no to war, no one listens, no one hears
Before all children of the earth, borders are just an illusion
One single planet, a humanity with a thousand faces
A humanity of a thousand colors, a humanity that dies in its flesh
We said no to war, no to famine, no to the fear of the other
No to obeying the hierarchy when it speaks words of death
From south to north, what do we honor? What are our values?
The other is your mirror, hitting your reflection is hitting yourself
And breaking it means more than 7 years of bad luck
And history repeats itself, and history repeats itself
And history repeats itself, and history repeats itself
We said no to war, to war, to war, we said no!
We said no to war, to war, to war, we said no!
We said no to war, no to the deadly spiral
It's always the civilians who pay and always the same mistakes as yesterday
Tell me who has a heart that's true? And I'll tell you who thinks for themselves
In the shadow of a millennia-old quarrel, it's up to us to reach the light
We said no to the death of the other, no to hate, no to power struggles
No to armed troops with a raw thirst for revenge
Tell me, your terrorists, who sells them their drugs? Who sells them their guns?
It's way more profitable to shoot weapons than to make peace
Finding enemies, the innocent wounded will become one tomorrow
And history repeats itself, and history repeats itself
And history repeats itself, and history repeats itself
We said no to war, to war, to war, we said no!
We said no to war, to war, to war, we said no!
We said no to war, no to the human loss you call collateral
No to the exploitation of misery that leads to treating men like rats
Head underwater before seeing the danger, we sense it in the shape of the waves
We solve nothing by expressing impulses with the force of flames
We said no to war since we were old enough to understand
Going to jail for a fight when your country only talks of revenge
The art of being ruthless, legitimizes its attacks
With a bunch of talk that means nothing when the bombs explode
And history repeats itself, and history repeats itself
And history repeats itself, and history repeats itself
We said no to war, to war, to war, we said no!
We said no to war, to war, to war, we said no!
